Introduction

Content Search is command line tool that searches files for text. It is intended as an extremely simple grep-like tool and generates output as clickable links (assuming the user is using Windows Terminal).

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Compiling

To clone and run this application, you'll need Git and .NET installed on your computer. From your command line:

# Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/btigi/ContentSearch

# Go into the repository
$ cd src

# Build  the app
$ dotnet build

Usage

cs directory extension searchtext

e.g. ContentSearch C:\source cs enumerable

cs will run a case-insensitive scan the specified directory and all sub-directories. The output will include a file:// link to each file with matching text - in Windows Terminal this can be clicked to open the file in the associated application

Configuration

cs will read configuration values from cs.json if the file exists. The default file content is below cs.json

{
  "FileForegroundColour": "Yellow",
  "FileBackgroundColour": "Black",
  "LineNumberForegroundColor": "Cyan",
  "LineForegroundColour": "White",
  "LineBackgroundColour": "Black",
  "DefaultForegroundColour": "White",
  "DefaultBackgroundColour": "Black"
}

The configuration sets colouring options in the output. Colours are .NET colour types mapped to ConsoleColour types. Invalid colours are mapped as black.

Licencing

Content Search is licenced under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Full licence details are available in licence.md